"How do I become an ethical hacker?" I hold myself to high standards. I likely won't consider myself a real ethical hacker until a) I'm either paid to be one, or b) I can confidently say I'm at the expert ...

MikroTik is a Latvian company which was founded in 1996 to develop routers and wireless ISP systems. The company is predominantly known for its RouterOS software system. With distributors located all around the world, including the United States, MikroTik should ...

If you haven't already begun the initial startup, you'll need to go back to PenTest Edition: Creating an Evil Twin or Fake Access Point Using Aircrack-ng and Dnsmasq [Part 1 - Setup] and update Aircrack-ng and configure the dnsmasq configuration ...

Before I start, I hope you already have a great understanding of 802.11 networks! A "Fake Access Point (AP)" is a type of wireless network attack in which an attacker uses software to create a malicious AP that is live ...

With Shodan, there's no hiding on the Internet. Shodan is a search engine that allows users to locate devices that are connected to the Internet, such as webcams, routers, servers, traffic lights, baby monitors, SCADA systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and so forth. Shodan began back in 2009 as a small project created by ...

Timehop, the extremely popular app that allows users to share their previous moments, has reported that it was the victim of a major data breach over the holiday, which took place on the Fourth of July. Timehop is available for both iOS and Android smartphone users and, since its startup in 2011, the app has ...

In this blog post, I'll discuss the design and operation of a 4G LTE network. In hindsight, I realize topics such as these can get extremely lengthy. For that reason, I'll limit this discussion down to only the necessary technical details required to understand these new LTE attacks, while excluding any complicating, non-essentials. These new ...

Fluxion Is The Future! Fluxion is accurately just a Wi-Fi analysis tool that comes with a list of very useful penetration testing programs, such as Aircrack-ng, Aireplay-ng, Airodump-ng, awk, bully, curl, dhcpd, hostapd, lighttpd etc. It is a remake of linset by vk496, available on Github. Unlike many other Wi-Fi analysis tools that use a dictionary ...

Yesterday, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the long-awaited, next generation in Wi-Fi security, WPA3. After 15 years, WPA3 will now begin to replace the existing WPA2 protocol, which is currently used by billions of wireless devices every day. For quite some time, WPA2 has long been considered insecure. It has always been vulnerable to brute force ...